Skilled explorer or overreaching dilettante? Crusading abolitionist or violent murderer? General with the soul of a country on his mind? Or self-centered opportunist only interested in tapping the ...

In the 19th century, biology, physics, chemistry, archaeology, geology, geography, and paleontology took off like a rocket, as did social fields like psychology and anthropology. Unfortunately, many ...

In the 1800s, many explorers flocked to the polar regions. But another vast, uncharted land presented opposite difficulties, ...

In the end, in the dark, it all came down to three things — experience, good judgment in the face of uncertainty, and penguin ...

The effect of the precession is to make a great change in the apparent places of the fixed stars. For the pole is slowly revolved through a circle round the pole of the ecliptic about forty-seven ...

Many great explorers have given their civilizations accurate pictures of the amazing complexities of other lands. Then they've blown their reputations with completely ridiculous stories. Take Marco ...

Introduction -- Nellie Bly -- Captain Robert Falcon Scott -- Roald Amundsen -- Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett -- Eva Dickson -- Clärenore Stinnes -- Amelia Earhart -- Thor Heyerdahl -- Jacques ...

An explosion, a conspiracy, and an unlikely duo on a mission to expose the truth.

There was a time, before football and rock'n'roll, when explorers were the A-listers of their day. Death-defying antics and tales of daring made them the stuff of legend: names like Columbus, Raleigh, ...

"A new edition of material selected from two earlier volumes, The European discovery of America : the Northern voyages, A.D. 500-1600 ... and The European discovery ...